Engineering Inertial and Primary-Frequency Response for Distributed Energy Resources

Emiliano Dall-Anese; Swaroop Guggilam; Sairaj Dhople; Yu Chen; Changhong Zhao

doi:10.1109/CDC.2017.8264416

Engineering Inertial and Primary-Frequency Response for Distributed Energy Resources

Emiliano Dall-Anese, Swaroop Guggilam, Sairaj Dhople, Yu Chen, Changhong Zhao

Power Systems Engineering

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Abstract

We propose a framework to engineer synthetic-inertia and droop-control parameters for distributed energy resources (DERs) so that the system frequency in a network composed of DERs and synchronous generators conforms to prescribed transient and steady-state performance specifications. Our approach is grounded in a second-order lumped-parameter model that captures the dynamics of synchronous generators and frequency-responsive DERs endowed with inertial and droop control. A key feature of this reduced-order model is that its parameters can be related to those of the originating higherorder dynamical model. This allows one to systematically design the DER inertial and droop-control coefficients leveraging classical frequency-domain response characteristics of second-order systems. Time-domain simulations validate the accuracy of the model-reduction method and demonstrate how DER controllers can be designed to meet steady-state-regulation and transient-performance specifications.

Original language	American English
Pages	5112-5118
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2017.8264416
State	Published - 2018
Event	2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 12 Dec 2017 → 15 Dec 2017

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Conference	2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
City	Melbourne, Australia
Period	12/12/17 → 15/12/17

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5D00-68165 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5D00-71536

Keywords

DER
distributed energy resources
inertial frequency response
primary-frequency response

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